Utilities

How To Download RHEL8 for Free
Anyone can download and use RHEL8 via Individual Developer subscription and it can be used in production for up to 16 systems.

ComVault Simpana Installation (cv11) on Linux (RHEL7)- Step by Step
This is a very basic article to share the cv11 installation. If any corrections/mistakes, please feel free to feedback as I am not an expert...

Update Dell iDRAC Firmware via Web GUI
We have experienced that, due to iDRAC firmware issues there will be so many connections issues on Dell remote access and one of the time-consuming...
How to Find the HBA/Fibre Channel Cards, Ports and WWN in Linux
Find HBA/Fibre Channel Card installed # lspci -nn |egrep -i "fibre|hba" 04:00.0 Fibre Channel [0c04]: Emulex Corporation Saturn-X: LightPulse Fibre …

How To Configure Minicom For Serial Console Connections
Those who work with infrastructure/server deployment knows how difficult it is to get a console for those devices having no display like switches, …

4 Websites You Can Use For Subnet Calculation
You might be a System Administrator, Developer, Infra Designer, Architect or a Capacity Manager by role, but getting quick information on your VLAN or …

How to get or set iLO details from Linux and Windows (when you lost iLO access)
As an sysadmin, its always headache to deal with remote systems as rely on remote consoles (HP iLO, Dell iDRAC etc) for servers to access...

Upgrade HPE iLO from Linux Command Line
1. Download HPE iLO firmware files from HPE portal. Make sure you download the required version from here 2. Confirm downloaded packages are full …
Subnet Mask Information – Quick Reference Sheet
Address Bits Pref NetMask 1 0 /32 255.255.255.255 2 1 /31 255.255.255.254 4 2 /30 255.255.255.252 8 3 /29 255.255.255.248 16 4 /28 255.255.255.240 32 …
How to check CPU count information (LUX)
Quick methods to check. Linux [root~]# dmidecode -t processor |grep CPU Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7- 4830 @ 2.13GHz Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU …
Register in RHN after installation
There are many situations where we need to register the host/server to RHN server manually, due to network issues, bad certificate/authentication or …
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